Rep. Jim Jordan, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, might be one of the three Republican leaders responsible for taking on the Biden Family in the recently-announced impeachment inquiry, but he apparently still has time to take on the weaponized justice system as well. Particularly, he is taking on the FBI agent who allegedly pressured social media companies to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.
As background, Rep. Jordan recently claimed that internal Facebook communications reveal FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan was “the main conduit” between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and big tech companies when they worked together to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story just weeks before the 2020 election.
Chan initially claimed that the FBI did not speak to Facebook outside of one meeting on the matter, but Rep. Jordan found and brought the receipts, which show that Special Agent Chan communicated with Facebook in secret, outside of the publicized meeting.
So, Rep. Jordan’s committee is now subpoenaing Chan to demand answers about what happened as it attempts to get a grip on the campaign of censorship emanating from the bowels of the Deep State and Big Tech.
In his letter to Chan, Rep. Jordan began by saying, “The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of how and to what extent the Executive Branch has coerced and colluded with companies and other intermediaries to censor speech. To develop effective legislation, such as the possible enactment of new statutory limits on the Executive Branch’s ability to work with social media platforms and other companies to restrict the circulation of content and deplatform users, the Committee on the Judiciary must first understand the nature of this collusion and coercion. As the primary liaison between the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and social media companies, you are uniquely positioned to aid the Committee’s oversight. On January 17, 2023, and again on March 3, 2023, the Committee requested that you voluntarily appear for a transcribed interview.”
Continuing, he gave more background and explained how the federal government is allegedly pushing censorship of conservatives online, writing, “The Committee’s investigation, along with other public reporting, and publicized discovery in an ongoing federal court case, Missouri v. Biden, have exposed how the federal government has pressured and colluded with Big Tech and other intermediaries to censor certain viewpoints on social and other media in ways that undermine First Amendment principles. The First Amendment prohibits government officials from imposing viewpoint-based censorship restrictions. State action doctrine stands for the proposition that government officials may not circumvent constitutional strictures by using private actors—whether through coercion, encouragement, entwinement, or joint participation—to accomplish what the government cannot directly.”
He then got to Chan’s relevance to the situation, noting that Chan is one of those caught red-handed as the committee investigates how the FBI pushed censorship. He wrote, “Numerous documents that have been made publicly available reflect the weaponization of the federal government’s power to censor speech online directly and by proxy. It is necessary for Congress to gauge the extent to which FBI agents coerced, pressured, worked with, or relied upon social media and other tech companies to censor speech. The scope of the Committee’s investigation includes understanding the extent and nature of the FBI’s involvement in this censorship. For example, through its investigation, the Committee has uncovered evidence that appears to contradict several statements in your deposition in Missouri v. Biden, particularly as they relate to your communications with social media platforms.”
Bringing the details about what Chan did in an attempt to weasel out of testimony, Rep. Jordan added, “The Committee was ready and willing to proceed with your transcribed interview under the Committee’s established protocols. After the Committee repeatedly requested that you voluntarily appear for a transcribed interview, the FBI agreed to schedule your interview for September 15, 2023, with full knowledge of the Committee’s longstanding protocol for conducting transcribed interviews. Then, only three days before your scheduled interview, you and the FBI requested special treatment to deviate from this protocol, which the Committee repeatedly and clearly denied. Just one day before your scheduled transcribed interview, you threatened to withdraw your appearance due to this disagreement and today you failed to appear for your interview.”
Rep. Jordan revealed Special Agent Chan’s involvement in a Twitter threat in early August. In it, he exposed how the FBI worked secretly in the wake of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story to suppress it and censor those trying to draw attention to it.
THE FACEBOOK FILES PART 4. FBI LIED ABOUT MEETING WITH BIG TECH REGARDING NY POST’S HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY
Internal FB docs reveal that an FBI Special Agent made false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story
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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) August 7, 2023
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